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bustle
English
Etymology
From Middle English bustlen, bustelen, bostlen, perhaps an alteration of *busklen (> Modern English buskle), a frequentative of Middle English busken (“to prepare; make ready”), from Old Norse búask (“to prepare oneself”); or alternatively from a frequentative form of Middle English busten, bisten (“to buffet; pummel; dash; beat”) +? -le. Compare also Icelandic bustla (“to splash; bustle”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b?s?l/
- Rhymes: -?s?l
Noun
bustle (countable and uncountable, plural bustles)
- (countable, uncountable) An excited activity; a stir.
- 1748. David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 34.
- we are, perhaps, all the while flattering our natural indolence, which, hating the bustle of the world, and drudgery of business seeks a pretence of reason to give itself a full and uncontrolled indulgence
- 1748. David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 34.
- (computing, countable) A cover to protect and hide the back panel of a computer or other office machine.
- (historical, countable) A frame worn underneath a woman's skirt, typically only protruding from the rear as opposed to the earlier more circular hoops.
Derived terms
- hustle and bustle
Translations
Verb
bustle (third-person singular simple present bustles, present participle bustling, simple past and past participle bustled)
- To move busily and energetically with fussiness (often followed by about).
- The commuters bustled about inside the train station.
- To teem or abound (usually followed by with); to exhibit an energetic and active abundance (of a thing).
- The train station was bustling with commuters.
- (transitive) To push around, to importune.
- 1981, A. D. Hope, "His Coy Mistress to Mr. Marvell," A Book of Answers:
- Don’t bustle her or fuss or snatch: / A suitor looking at his watch / Is not a posture that persuades / Willing, much less reluctant maids.
- 1981, A. D. Hope, "His Coy Mistress to Mr. Marvell," A Book of Answers:
Synonyms
- (to move busily): flit, hustle, scamper, scurry
- (to exhibit an energetic abundance): abound, brim, bristle, burst, crawl, swell, teem
Translations
References
Anagrams
- bluest, bluets, butles, sublet, subtle
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distemper
English
Etymology
From Old French destemprer, from Latin distemperare.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d?s?t?mp?(?)/
- Rhymes: -?mp?(?)
Noun
distemper (countable and uncountable, plural distempers)
- (veterinary medicine, pathology) A viral disease of animals, such as dogs and cats, characterised by fever, coughing and catarrh.
- (archaic) A disorder of the humours of the body; a disease.
- 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, London: W. Taylor, 3rd edition, p. 105,[1]
- […] my spirits began to sink under the Burden of a strong Distemper, and Nature was exhausted with the Violence of the Fever […]
- 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, London: W. Taylor, 3rd edition, p. 105,[1]
- A glue-based paint.
- A painting produced with this kind of paint.
Translations
Verb
distemper (third-person singular simple present distempers, present participle distempering, simple past and past participle distempered)
- To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of.
- To derange the functions of, whether bodily, mental, or spiritual; to disorder; to disease.
- c. 1600, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III, Scene 2,[2]
- Guildenstern. The King, sir—
- Hamlet. Ay, sir, what of him?
- Guildenstern. Is in his retirement, marvellous distemper’d.
- Hamlet. With drink, sir?
- Guildenstern. No, my lord; rather with choler.
- 1814, Joseph Stevens Buckminster, Sermons, Boston: John Eliot, Sermon XVI, p. 267,[3]
- The imagination, when completely distempered, is the most incurable of all disordered faculties.
- 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 3,[4]
- To some extent the Nore Mutiny may be regarded as analogous to the distempering irruption of contagious fever in a frame constitutionally sound, and which anon throws it off.
- c. 1600, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III, Scene 2,[2]
- To deprive of temper or moderation; to disturb; to ruffle; to make disaffected, ill-humoured, or malignant.
- 1799-1800, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (translator), The Piccolomini by Friedrich Schiller, Boston: Francis A. Niccolls & Co., 1902, p. 37,[5]
- I have been long accustomed to defend you,
- To heal and pacify distempered spirits.
- 1799-1800, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (translator), The Piccolomini by Friedrich Schiller, Boston: Francis A. Niccolls & Co., 1902, p. 37,[5]
- To intoxicate.
- 1623, Philip Massinger, The Duke of Milan, Act I, Scene 1,[6]
- For the Courtiers reeling,
- And the Duke himselfe, (I dare not say distemperd,
- But kind, and in his tottering chaire carousing)
- They doe the countrie service.
- 1623, Philip Massinger, The Duke of Milan, Act I, Scene 1,[6]
- To paint using distemper.
- To mix (colours) in the way of distemper.
- to distemper colors with size
Conjugation
Anagrams
- imprested
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